For the Grade

There's no denying it. We do the finals and we do them well only to get a good grade. When was the last time the teacher told you he didn't like what you were writing or creating or how you were making your project/final and you continued it anyway because it was your creation and your vision?

I'll tell you when I last had that happen to me- last year.

During my Graphics, Communications and Printing class I had to design an ad as part of my midterm. Every aspect of my design completely hit the demographic and followed every guideline set, yet my teacher told me he wasn't too crazy about it.

Since this was an art-type class and it was free interpretation, I did my design anyway, partly because I wouldn't have time to re-do everything but mostly because this was my design. I had planned and thought it out, sketched it, designed and created it. I was not about to change all of that so my teacher would like what I did.

I learned the hard way that high school projects are done for the grade.

D- in hand, during my final I re-thought what kind of ad I was going to do this time. This time around, my teacher said he liked my design; even though I personally didn't care at all for it, I turned it in and got an A.

It's all for the grade.